Submitted by: @mrotteveel

Firebird currently uses unsigned 32 bit integers for the update counts returned by the isc_info_req_update_count (and related info items). Can this be extends to unsiged 64 bit integers (which technically is already supported by the code in jrd/inf.cpp). The current code should be compatible with this change because it will return numbers that fit inside a signed 32 bit integer as a 4 byte vax integer, and if the receiving side does not support 8 byte vax integers the client code (also in for example 2.5) will return 0.

Looking at this I also notice a potential bug in the existing code: the update counts (defined as ULONG) don't correctly roundtrip for values larger than MAX_SLONG as those are sent as a vax int64, and a received update count is usually decoded with gds__vax_integer which will return 0 if the length of the vax integer is larger than 4 (see print_counts in qli\exe.cpp, process_record_count in isql\isql.epp)

Major reason (for me) is the introduction of retrieval of large update counts in the JDBC API with Java 8 / JDBC 4.2 (see http://download.java.net/jdk8/docs/api/java/sql/Statement.html#getLargeUpdateCount() ).